Collar button



Sept. 9 1924.

W. H. GODWIN COLLAR BUTTON Filed May 4, 1921 attozwu Patented Septe 9, 13244 U N I T E S WILLIAM H. GODWIN, OF SUMNLEB., WASHINGTON.

COLLAR Application led May 4,

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that WILLIAM H. GoDwIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Sumner, in the county of Pierce and State of l/Vashington, has invented new and useful Improvements in Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device of the kind mentioned to be made from sheet material and of such a form that it may function properly irrespective of the position in which it is inserted in the shirt band. A further purpose is to construct a button of the kind mentioned so that it may have an alternative use as a garment supporter particularly for waist-line garments.

The invention is illustrated and described in a specific embodiment to which, however, it is not to be restricted. The right is reserved to make such changes or alterations as the actual reduction to practice may suggest, in so far as such changes or alterations are compatible in spirit with the annexed claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of the neck portion of a shirt and its attached collar, the invention being shown as the attaching means .between the shirt neck band and the collar.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing thc button as constructed for use in the front of the shirt.y

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the invention as used in the rear of the shirt neck band.

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view through Figure l at the front of the collar.

Figure 5 is a similar view through the structure of Figure l at the back of the collar.

The button is made of sheet material comprising the body portion l from which the tongue 2 is struck, the latter being bent at right angles to the body portion and then bent back in substantial parallelism to the body portion to provide a bill 3. In the collar button used in the frontof the shirt, that portion of the tongue comprehended between the bill and the body portion is of suflicient length to accommodate the three thicknesses or plies that it must carry by reason of its use in the front, the bill 3 bent back toward the body portion 1 and the ter-- collar band.

BUTTON,

1921. serial No. 466,678,

minal 4 constitutes a foot for bearing engagement with the outer tab of the collar and serves by reason of the resilience of the material of which the device is made to hold the two tabs of the collar against each other and the inner tab back against the The body portion l is of such width when the tongue 2 is upstruck there are left the two ears 5 constituting bearing feet which lie in the same plane as the body portion and bear against the collar band on the opposite sides of the button hole from the body portion l.

The button shown in Figure 8 is substantially the same as that shown in having a body portion la, the ears 5a, and the tongue 2a of which the bill 3a instead of being of the shape shown in Figure 2 is flat and is disposed in parallelism with the body portion la, the space between the bill 3a and the body portion la being sufi cient to accommodate the thickness of the neck band and the inner ply of the collar.

The button shown in Figure 2 is formed preferably with a hole 6 in the body portion to serve as a means for attaching it to a Figure 2,

part of the garment if it is desired at any time to use the device as a support for waist line garments.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A collar button consisting of a blank ofsheet material having a substantially flat body portion and an integral. tongue rising from the plane of the body portion substantially midway of the length thereof and deflected in the form of a bill which lies'in substantial parallelism with the plane of the body portion. the tongue being of a,

width less than, the body portion and beingT separated at its side edges therefrom by slit-s forming side ears which extend in the plane of the body portion and in the opposite direction from the tongue, the ears being of a length approximating that portion of the body which is overhung by the tongue to prevent tilting of the button when in use` the said bill being concaved longitudinally and having its free end portion projecting beyond the opposite transverse edge ofthe bod wmf Iii testimony whereof he afHXes hissigna-` ture. i

WILLIAM H. GODWIN. 

